Tonight on Ovation

One Man's Trash

(2014) One man's trash becomes another man's treasure as two teams of artists from all walks of life compete to transform waste into incredible works of art. Whether it’s weaving old soda cans into magnificent chandeliers, setting fire to crayons for a colorful palette of wax or building giant animal sculptures out of rusting car parts, these artists take going green to the extreme. Starring Kevin Christy.

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The Challenge

Meet the Artists

Team A - Beaverstar Gallactica

Chris Haberman

Chris Haberman is a working artist, curator and writer native to Portland, Oregon. His art is primarily folk-art in nature, composing paintings of people and text, and creating sculpture from found objects. Chris has created over 10,000 works of art since 2003, and his work has been featured on OPB/PBS, Juxtapoz Magazine and numerous regional and national sources. Besides making art, Chris is freelance curator, co-founding The People’s Art of Portland Gallery (since 2010) in Portland, and is the current Art Consultant/Curator for TV show Portlandia (Seasons 3, 4 and 5).

Team A - Beaverstar Gallactica

Mona Superhero

Portland, Oregon artist Mona Superhero's work is comprised entirely of duct tape. Superhero is the in-house muralist for Voodoo Doughnut. She enjoys long walks, sunsets and krunking.

Team A - Beaverstar Gallactica

Richard Cawley

A Portland native, Richard Cawley has been designing and creating sculptural objects for over two decades. Since the beginning of his artistic career, he has been drawn to the challenge and delight of transforming the ordinary and mundane post-consumer waste of our culture into thought provoking objects of beauty and functional works of art.

Team B - Cheese Moose

Jen Fuller

"Glass has an uncanny way of reflecting the transparency and vulnerability found in humanity and nature; to work successfully with it, one must follow glass where it wants to go," says Portland based artist Jen Fuller. Jen’s sculptures blend the contrasting aesthetics of glass and steel to create sculpture that she calls "totems for the soul." Fuller's commissioned works include the UN LIVCOM award for the city of Portland and Moment 2 for San Francisco Recology. Fuller has shown at Black Fish Gallery, The Contemporary Craft Museum of Portland, Pilchuck, and is currently the Director of the William T. Colville arts foundation.

Team B - Cheese Moose

Scott Foster

Scott Foster is the owner and curator of Good:a Gallery in Portland Oregon. He is a character sculptor for stop-motion animation and has sculpted characters for the movies "Coraline" and "The Boxtrolls". Fosters welded steel sculptures focus on myth and spirit in modern society.

Team B - Cheese Moose

Zach Johnsen

Zach Johnsen is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working in graphite, watercolor, pen & ink, acrylic and mixed media on paper and canvas. His work is figurative, depicting people and characters in various states of motion, often times exploding or morphing. His work is frenetic in nature...an explosion of lines and color influenced by infomercials, cartoons, sweets and the over consumption of popular culture. Zach currently resides in Portland, Oregon.

Meet the Host & Judges

Kevin Christy - Host and Judge

Kevin Christy is not just an LA based comedian, but he’s also a current regular at the Laugh Factory, Comedy Store, and the Improv – so we know his street cred’s intact. In his own unique and self-deprecating way, he’s performed on "Chelsea Lately", "The Carson Daly Show" and "Adam Devine’s House Party", as well as opened for such up-and-coming comedy legends like Whitney Cummings, Bobby Lee, Al Madrigal, and Neal Brennan – so we know he’s being laughed at in good company.

Jeffrey Miller - Judge

Jeffrey Miller is the co-Owner and Curator of White Space Gallery in Portland, Oregon. He began his art education at Cornell University, where he studied art history and painting before graduating with a degree in History and an MBA in finance. He embarked on a career in asset management and began to immediately collect art while living in New York, Philadelphia, St. Croix, and Portland. He created White Space with his wife Tammy Miller to showcase emerging and mid-career artists from the Pacific Northwest.

Angela Pozzi - Judge

Angela was born in Portland, Oregon to a family of artists. She attended the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Education. She continued her education at Portland State University, where she received a Masters in Education with an emphasis in Art Education. She has taught from elementary to college level students in both public and private schools and has spent much of her career lecturing, consulting, creating and exhibiting her artwork in galleries and museums. Angela Pozzi is lead artist and executive director of Washedashore.org, a non-profit organization whose mission is to use the arts to encourage environmental conservation.